Spoon

A wrapper around scoop, aiming to be a full drop-in replacement, but still relying on the existing community work in form of buckets.

Highlighted Features

• More thorough scoop search
• Better performance (Varies from command to command)
• Additional features
  • Tab completion for commands, flags and packages
  • Common command aliases

    For example no need to gues whether it's uninstall, rm or remove.

  • New commands
    • spoon shell, it's kinda like nix-shell
    • spoon versions to list all available manifests for an app (non autogenerated ones).

For a more detailed list of changes in comparison to scoop, check the table below.

Breaking Changes

• The --global flag hasn't beren implemented anywhere and I am not planning to do so as of now. If there's demand in the future, I will consider.

Manual Installation

1. Add required buckets

scoop bucket add extras
scoop bucket add biosmarcel "https://github.com/Bios-Marcel/scoopbucket.git"

2. Install spoon

scoop install spoon

If you want to test out the latest "in progress" stuff, try the spoon_pre package instead. It contains potentially unstable or half-finished features. Worst case it will install a package in an unfunctinal state, but won't cause any harm to your OS or other packages.

Updates

Note that self-updating is NOT YET possible. To update, please use scoop update spoon for now.

CLI Progress

Progress overview for scoop command implementations. This does NOT include spoon native commands. It shows the current implementation status in terms of scoop compatibility and highlights the differences.

There are basically three levels of implementations (and the states inbetween):

• Native

  Fully reimplemented in spoon, no usage of scoop code

• Partially Native

  Some functionallity is spoon native, but scoop code is still used

• Wrapper

  Only provides autocompletion and documentation, but scoop code does 100% of the execution work.

Command	Implementation Type	Changes
help	Native
search	Native	* Performance improvements * JSON output * Search configuration
install	Wrapper
uninstall	Wrapper	* Terminate running processes
update	Partially Native	* Now invokes status after updating buckets
bucket	Partially Native	* bucket rm now supports multiple buckets to delete at once
cat	Native	* Alias manifest * Allow getting specific manifest versions
status	Native	* --local has been deleted (It's always local now) * Shows outdated / installed things scoop didn't (due to bugs)
info	Wrapper
depends	Native (WIP)	* Adds --reverse/-r flag * Prints an ASCII tree by default
list
hold
unhold
reset
cleanup
create
shim
which
config
download
cache
prefix
home
export
import
checkup
virustotal
alias

Search

The search here does nothing fancy, it simply does an offline search of buckets, just like what scoop does, but faster. Online search is not supported as I deem it unnecessary. If you want to search the latest, simply run scoop update; spoon search <app>.

The search command allows plain output and JSON output. This allows use with tools such as jq or direct use in powershell via Powershells builtin ConvertFrom-Json.